The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-24
THE REsURRECTIoNIsT CABBY.
How British Cabby Earned a Title
from His Brother JehuS.
From the Liverpool Courier.

From the Liverpool Courier.
''But the FUNNIEST start ever did hear
Of" said the patriarchal driver, twas that
that caused a cabman, who is dead now, to
be known as the 'Resurectionist.' He was
a day man, and was going home about II
o'clock with his four-wheeler, and had
stopped for last drink at a public house,
when man who was at the bar spoke to
him. The man said he was in trouble. He
had lost child, and being out of employ
nlent he had no means of burying it, and Of
all things he was anxious to avoid the dis
grace Of having it buried by the parish. He
had managed to buy coffin, he said, and
his idea was to take it at nighttime to some
cemetery and bury it himself in consecrated
ground. ,r
''And if you are agreeable to take me
and the little box as far as Gene
terry he says, L will willingly give you a
crown for your trouble. I'd carry it there
myself, only it might be awkward if
was stopped, with "a coffin in my posses
sion
at was a queer kind of job, but the
cabman had had'bad luck all day, and it was
five shillings easy earned, and he agreed 'on
condition that the coffin was only little
one
"'She was only nine months old when she
died, pretty creeter,' said the chap, wiping
his eyes with his coat cuff, and small at
that
$50 the cabman stayed at the corner, and
presently the chap came back with the little
coffin in black bag and with a garden
spade hid under his coat. They drove to the
cemetery and round to the back part of it,
and the chap having put the coffin and the
spade over the palings, climbed over him
self. He wasn't very long gone, and when
he returned he gave the cabman crown.
81 shan't ride back with you,' says he,
the Job has upset my nerves, and snail be
the better for walk
80 he went off, and the cabman, begin
ming by this time to think there was some
thing wrong about the business, took one OF
his lamps and looked into the cab, and there
on the mat was a lady's gold necklet new,
and with the shop ticket still on it, and an
odd earring as well, which was also new
He was quite sure now that there was some
thing wrong and after having a short
drive round while he thought it over, he
came back to the cemetery palings, and got
over at the same spot the CHAP had, taxing
a lamp with him, and found, as he had ex-
pected, that it was easy to trace the foot
steps in the soft earth from the place where
the chap had jumped, and he traced on till
they came to an end, and then he kicked up
the loose SOIL and hardly a foot deep was
the little coffiu buried in the bag AS soon
as he lifted it he was made aware by a
climbing sound inside that he was not far
out in his suspicion, and without staying to
opon is to see he drives with it straight to
the police station, and there it was found
that it contained more than EI00 worth of
jewelry that had been stolen from shop at
the West End few nights before. And
the chap got took on the claimants descrip-
ton Of him and received seven years, and
the cabman, who was ever afterward
known as the 'ReSurrectionist, he got e100
from the jeweler. And there is no doubt
the money was the death of him" said the
narrator. when the meeting breaking up,
we all rose to take our leave 1T got him
into drinking habits, and he never got out
of 'em till they settled him"